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Contemporaries live from second hand to mouth.

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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
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That an author takes a bow is not humility but presumption. What does the paleface want on the stage afterwards? But before the performance he had even less business there--and paying him royalties is equivalent to cheating the actors.
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Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
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So-called psychoanalysis is the occupation of lustful rationalists who trace everything in the world to sexual causes--with the exception of their occupation.
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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
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When I want to go to sleep, I must first get a whole menagerie of voices to shut up. You wouldn't believe what a racket they make in my room.
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Many desire to kill me, and many wish to spend an hour chatting with me. The law protects me from the former.
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My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they be read once.
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I knew a man who carried his education in his vest pocket because there was more room there than in his head.
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A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on non-alcoholic wine.
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If one reads a newspaper only for information, one does not learn the truth, not even the truth about the paper. The truth is that the newspaper is not a statement of contents but the contents themselves and more than that, it is an instigator.
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There is a cultural taste which tries very hard to get rid of the lice in a fur coat. There is another which tolerates the lice and thinks the coat can be worn with them in it. And finally there is a taste which regards the lice as the most important thing about the coat and consequently places the coat at the lice's disposal.
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Diplomacy is a game of chess in which the nations are checkmated.
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Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?
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What the teachers digest, the pupils eat.
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A father's pride, laid on thick, has always made me wish that the fellow had at least experienced some pain during procreation.
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The difference between psychiatrists and other mentally disturbed people is something like the relationship between concave and convex madness.
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Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.
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To have no ideas and being able to express them is the essence of journalism.
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The blind won't admit that I have eyes in my head, and the deaf say that I'm dumb.
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Social reform is the desperate decision to remove corns from a person suffering from cancer.
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